2025 FESTIVALApril 2-12, 2025Lansing, MI

Friday Evening Shorts

Please note: The films in this program have subtitles.

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  • Broken Pipe
    Broken Pipe
  • Moderately Satisfied
    Moderately Satisfied
  • The Old Man and the Dead
    The Old Man and the Dead
  • Until Forever
    Until Forever

Broken Pipe

Nico is eighty, lonely and stubborn. And he needs to make a decision which will affect the future of his family.

  • DIRECTOR
    Iris Ben Moshe
  • YEAR
    2018
  • RUNTIME
    25 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    Hebrew
  • COUNTRY
    Israel

Luana

Luana plays between trains and swings while she waits for her father on the other side of the line.

  • DIRECTOR
    Pedro Magano
  • YEAR
    2018
  • RUNTIME
    23 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    Portuguese
  • COUNTRY
    Portugal

Accident

Accidents escalate and pile up when a bickering young couple finds themselves trapped within their wrecked car.

  • DIRECTOR
    David Cocheret
  • YEAR
    2018
  • RUNTIME
    6 Minutes
  • COUNTRY
    Netherlands

Moderately Satisfied

When visiting her terminally ill mother for the first time in months, an estranged daughter finds new answers about her relationship with her bitter mother, while filling out a patient satisfaction survey. For the first time, the two finally meet halfway

  • DIRECTOR
    Hind Anabtawi
  • YEAR
    2018
  • RUNTIME
    13 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    Arabic
  • COUNTRY
    United Arab Emirates

The Old Man and the Dead

An old man who lives in a cafe far away from town is committing suicide but a truck driver interrupts him.
The driver has found a dead body and asks the old man to keep the body till dawn so the hearse will come and collect it.
But hours later the old man realizes that the body is alive and he gets scared…

  • DIRECTOR
    Amirreza Falaki
  • YEAR
    2018
  • RUNTIME
    17 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    Persian
  • COUNTRY
    Iran, Islamic Republic of

Until Forever (Hasta Siempre)

*DIRECTOR IN ATTENDANCE* It is 1990. The revolution in Nicaragua has finally come to an end, leaving a wife and her husband struggling to find a way to pick up the pieces of their broken hearts.

  • DIRECTOR
    Katharine Mahalic
  • YEAR
    2018
  • RUNTIME
    10 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    Spanish
  • COUNTRY
    Nicaragua
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